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Some men grow up having to be a companion to their mother.
They're seen as "mama's boys" but something deeper is going on...
They're seen as "mama's boys" but something deeper is going on...
This is called enmeshment.
Mother son enmeshment is when a son fills the role for his mother that a partner would fill. This begins because the mother is in an emotionally neglectful relationship or feels isolated and alone.
Mother son enmeshment is when a son fills the role for his mother that a partner would fill. This begins because the mother is in an emotionally neglectful relationship or feels isolated and alone.
Her son becomes the person to meet her needs.
She tells him everything and over-relies on him, so he grows up without developing autonomy.
He lacks the ability to understand his own emotions, desires, and opinions.
She tells him everything and over-relies on him, so he grows up without developing autonomy.
He lacks the ability to understand his own emotions, desires, and opinions.
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1/🧵 If you think "demagogue" just means "politician I don’t like," you’re missing one of the most important political concepts of our time.
Once you see how demagogues operate, you’ll start noticing them everywhere. Read on 👀👇
Once you see how demagogues operate, you’ll start noticing them everywhere. Read on 👀👇
2/ A demagogue isn’t just loud or polarizing. It’s a leader who climbs by intentionally weaponizing fear, resentment, and prejudice instead of making serious, evidence‑based arguments.
These behaviors represent a method, not an accident.
These behaviors represent a method, not an accident.
3/ The demagogue's signature move: split the world into a righteous "people" and one or more corrupt, dangerous "them," then insist politics is a zero‑sum war between the two. Once that frame lands, compromise and criticism look like betrayal or treason.
1/ Following political pressure, Wildberries' CEO Tatyana Kim – Russia's richest woman – says that the company will compensate its sellers for their losses despite a recent change of its terms and conditions that absolved it of liability. ⬇️
2/ Colossal quantities of goods – likely hundreds of millions of items – have been destroyed in Ukraine's recent drone strikes on several Wildberries warehouses. Forbes Russia estimates the total damage so far to be as much as 283–303 billion rubles ($3.60–3.86 billion).
3/ Some individual traders have sustained huge losses. One company alone, Russian clothing brand Finn Flare, says it has lost goods worth over 100 million rubles ($1.28 million) in the fire caused by the attack on the Wildberries warehouse in Elektrostal.
Applebaum: Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner negotiated with Russia over Ukraine while discussing mineral, oil and gas deals for connected US companies. They were not bargaining for Ukrainian security or America's European allies. That is a profound abuse of American power. 1/
Applebaum: The Trump administration is not withdrawing from the world. In Ukraine, it is trying to broker an end to Russia's war while negotiators seek business gains. US power is being used for the clique controlling Washington, not for alliances or peace. 2X
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YouGov just released its latest 2026 data on the state of reading.
Here are 10 stats that will surprise you:
1) Over a third of adults (36%) are reading fewer books than they did 10 years ago.
Here are 10 stats that will surprise you:
1) Over a third of adults (36%) are reading fewer books than they did 10 years ago.
2) 50% of people say they're reading less because of too many distractions.
37% say it's due to having a shorter attention span.
37% say it's due to having a shorter attention span.
3) What are people doing instead of reading books?
• 55% are watching movies/tv
• 53% are scrolling social media
• 36% are playing video games
• 21% are listening to podcasts
• 55% are watching movies/tv
• 53% are scrolling social media
• 36% are playing video games
• 21% are listening to podcasts
Just going to say here, I think I've said this before, a 'historically accurate' version of the Odyssey is not possible because the Odyssey does not take place in a historical setting - it takes place in a fantastical pastiche of four centuries, mixed in with gods and monsters.
You could attempt a historically grounded depiction of what a siege or large raid in 1184 BC might have looked like, but that's not the Odyssey.
You could attempt a historically grounded depiction of what a sea voyage c. 750 BC might look like, but that's not the Odyssey either.
You could attempt a historically grounded depiction of what a sea voyage c. 750 BC might look like, but that's not the Odyssey either.
The chronological setting of the Odyssey really is, effectively, 'nowhen.'
It is absolutely set in the past, but not a specific, dateable past. Present tense (for Homer) stuff shows up, truly ancient s*** (for Homer) shows up. Also giants, monsters, giant monsters and gods.
It is absolutely set in the past, but not a specific, dateable past. Present tense (for Homer) stuff shows up, truly ancient s*** (for Homer) shows up. Also giants, monsters, giant monsters and gods.
I get that personal health and being in a good state of mind are important, but isolating yourself from society at large puts you in a position to be less revolutionary not more.
In isolating yourself from the general processes of capitalist development and social life, you also close off the possibility to transform said life and instead isolate and atomize yourself from it.
Even if you come to reject capitalist society through this isolation that rejection can never be more than contemplative, as you do not have the necessary connections to the general processes of social life needed to transform those processes.
Dr. Ken Berry is a family doctor who's spent 20 years watching fatty liver disease quietly explode in adults and kids.
He revealed the 11 warning signs almost everyone ignores:
1) Dull pain under your right rib cage
He revealed the 11 warning signs almost everyone ignores:
1) Dull pain under your right rib cage
This shows up once fatty streaks have caused your liver to swell.
By the time you feel it, you've gone further down the road than you think.
By the time you feel it, you've gone further down the road than you think.
2) Your liver is physically enlarged
- Called hepatomegaly
- Sometimes felt by a doctor during a physical exam
- Confirmed on a CT scan or MRI
A sign the fatty streaking has already been building for a while.
- Called hepatomegaly
- Sometimes felt by a doctor during a physical exam
- Confirmed on a CT scan or MRI
A sign the fatty streaking has already been building for a while.
How does one find words for the betrayal of trust that occurs at both an individual & collective level when Christ's church fails the most vulnerable? What descriptors will account for the compounded betrayal that comes from organizational structures that enable abuse? 🧵
What vocabulary can reveal the weight of shame & victim blaming when the rarity of public disclosure occurs? What dictionary catalogs the "in-house" responses from pastors & staff-members equipped with zero training or awareness? 2/
How do we parse the complicated whirlwind of community betrayal, good intentions, and not-so-good intentions? What thesaurus spells out the impact of absent safeguarding and protective measures? The culpability of negligent and nonfunctional response procedures? 3/
